Former Tiger All-American Mangham Dies

BATON ROUGE, La. – Mickey Mangham, a former Academic
All-America and All-SEC end for LSU’s legendary football teams of the
late 1950s, died Thursdaymorning in
Lafayette, La. He was 71.

Visitation will be held Friday from 4-8 p.m. at Martin &
Castille Funeral Home, 330 St. Landry Street in downtown Lafayette. Further
arrangements are pending and will be announced when they become available.

Manghamlettered at LSU
from 1958-60 and helped lead the Tigers to the 1958 national championship as
the right end on the “White” team, or first-string unit.

Mangham scored the only touchdown in LSU’s 7-0 win
over Clemson in the January 1, 1959 Sugar Bowl, a victory which culminated the
’58 national championship season. Mangham caught a nine-yard TD pass from
Billy Cannon in the third quarter to provide the game-winning points.

Mangham was named a first-team Academic All-America in 1959,
and he earned second-team All-SEC recognition the same year. He graduated from
LSU in 1962 with a petroleum engineering degree, and he earned an LSU Law
School degree in 1966.

Mangham, who worked as an attorney in Lafayette, served with
distinction as the chairman of the Tiger Athletic Foundation during the 1990s.